The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1887-10-21
CoOper's Pie,y Racket.

The worst scared man In this State
to-day is Thomas Y. Cooper, Chairman
of the Republican State Committee.
In former campaigns the ta.ifT was the
beginning. middle and ending of his ap-
peals TO the people for their votes in
favor Of continuing in power the grand
old party" OF which he is so thorough a
representative. Last week, however,
he changed his old tactics and in a long
address 10 the people he had the braZcu
etTTOatery to charge that a conspiracy
had been entered into by the Demo
Gratis, Personal Liberty Leagues. brew
ers. distillers, Anarchists and other
unholy elements, TO defeat the Repub-
licaE State ticket and abolish the Christ
ian sunday by illimita5Ie supplies OF
lager beer. In order 10 accomplish this
wicked purpose he deliberately asserted
in the address that the liquor dealers
throughout the state had put up $500
600, which was being used through and
by the Democratic organization. -
Cooper knows, Of course, that all this
is the veriest moOnshine, but it suits
him in his desperate strait to resort 10
it. Tom Cooper in print as the defend
er of the sanctity OF the Sabbath IS a
spectacle for the laughter of both gods
ard men. The matter with Cooper is
that he can't work the saloon inter
est in this campaign in favor of the Re.
publican ring, as he has successfully
done in former years, and Is finding out
that when, al the last session of the
Legislature, he passed a Prohibitorv
Amendment and followed it up with the
Brooks High License law, he commit
ted the biggest mistake of his life. The
Philadelphia Record Of Wednesday last
dissects COoper's address as follows
There is a refreshing simplicity in the
charge of the Republican organs and
party managers in Pennsylvania that
the diSt!lling aud brewery interests have
enteIed into ''cOmbiUa. iOu'' or Ar
raugemeUt with the Democratic party.
What would the organs and managers
aforesaid nave Alter having Induced
a Republican Legislature 10 submit a
prOhioltOTy amendment, which IL adOus-
ed would cause a sweeping cOrIiscatInu
of millions OF capital invested in brew
cries, dIstlllerles and hotel property.
they seem TO expect that the Interests
thus aSsai!ed will meekly submit With
out a struggle. They have bsen p'avinr
The PrOhjbiJionists and liquor interests
against each OsheT so long that they
imagined that this game of progressive
euchre" could go on for an indefinite
period.
- far as the liquor interests are con-
cerned the Republican party Of Penn
syivania Is the party OF Prohibition. II
the ProhIbltiOnisJs should themselves
get into power they could do tor them
selves but little more than the Repub.
!icaus have done tor them. The Pro
hIbItlOnists might with lust as much
propriety complain that the brewers
and distillerS Of Pennsylvania are not in
political sympathy with them.
As for the talk of arrangements
ana ALLIANCES" of the Liquor League
with the Democratic party, that Is mere
childishness. The Democrats Of Penn
syNdnia have To need to make such al
llancrs. Their position on this question
has long been clearly defined. They
hsve not cOurted and caioIed the men
VINO are engaged IN the manufacture and
sale OF liquors on the one hand. nor have
they menaLced those msn with hostile
NyG tauarIcal legislation on the other
hand. While firmly opposing assaults
upon the Personal LIber OF the citizen
10y prOhIUltOTy amendments aud b'rOted
Ntbbt!arIau codes, the Democrats of
IeruSy lvaHia hdv- always favored rea-
Sunah'e leglS GiIye Tes. Taints upon The
ev'0s and abuses OF the liquor lrat6c.
lE huOiug this position they have been
denounced as The WHISKY paI.N'' while
the WHISKY Interests have frequently
gone over 10 their opponents some in
teresting facts on his 10 Mt Ie contained
w the history of uquor Legislation IN
Pennsylvania. But the Democratic
party ~ ,hls STATE has Intrigued or com
promised neither with the advocates of
ishaticdl sumptuary code nor with the
VoJarlsS OF free whisky. Sincs the Re
publican leaders in attempting To carry
whisky on one shoulder and Tain-water
on the other have managed TO spill a
great deal os both, there is no reason
why tney should charge their mishap To
the DvmocratIC party.